Archives for December 2011

Coffee Party’s discussion with David Cobb and Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap about the strategy and methods of Move to Amend Coalition, their upcoming action, Occupy the Courts and what it would mean to join the coalition. Many Coffee Party members joined the call with their concerns about our collaboration. We also discussed Citizens United in detail. My […]

Posted by Arden Wallace I love online shopping, don’t you guys? I know it’s the best time of year for it because it’s Christmas but it’s just nice when you’re like me with 3 young kids where you don’t have to get out and go to a store, you can just get online and order […]

1. When they say: "We can’t raise taxes on job creators." Then you say… We should be putting money in the pockets of the real job creators: the middle class whose spending keeps our businesses thriving and hiring. Instead, the GOP just voted to raise taxes on millions of middle-class Americans and protect tax giveaways […]

I love the Christmas season. This time of year brings a special joy to my heart. There is nothing I love more than getting together with my family, eating homemade barbecue, and watching endless reruns of the Christmas story. No matter what age we are, we can always be children again at Christmas. We can […]

Occupy the Dinner Table By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News 26 December 11 Reader Supported News | Perspective ike every liberal activist and preacher’s son, I have arch-conservative family members who don’t agree with my philosophies whom I see every year on the holidays. This year, Occupiers have nothing to worry about – when […]

1 infographic, 5 million jobs The 99% Act is the best bill we’ve seen in Washington in a long time. But it can be hard to remember the details or explain them to friends and family. This infographic spells out exactly how the 99% Act will help turn our economy around. If you think bills […]

Five myths about the Solyndra collapse Posted by Brad Plumerat 10:07 AM ET, 09/14/2011 There are still plenty of nagging questions about the collapse of Solyndra, the California-based solar-panel maker that went bankrupt last month after getting $535 million worth of loan guarantees from the Obama administration. Such as: Did the Energy Department fail […]

Something amazing is happening today. The Tea Party faction of the Republicans in Congress that was holding the payroll tax relief for the middle class and the poor hostage in order to force ideological demands into the bill were forced to cave. Make no mistake; this did not occur because of leadership either from the […]

It’s About Compassion By Eva Longoria on December 15, 2011 My support for Barack Obama is personal, and I can trace it back to a defining moment in my life. When my sister with special needs was in high school, someone stole her lettermans jacket, her most prized possession. When she told me, I […]

House Republicans have agreed to pass a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, reports National Journal. According to the report, the House agreed to the move after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) agreed to appoint members to a conference committee to work out a longer deal between the two chambers. Payroll Tax […]

Yesterday, Washington Republicans voted to raise taxes on 160 million working Americans and cut off over 2 million Americans looking for work from unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, a new poll shows President Obama winning back middle class voters. The GOP’s present to American families: taking money out of their pockets. The pressures of the holidays don’t […]

Melissa Matthews, a 32-year-old a stay-at-home-mom from Leander, Texas, said she works a job from home at night while her children are sleeping and her husband works two jobs. Melissa Matthews is frustrated that the House has not passed an extension. She said her husband just found out from his employer that he will […]

I was very late to this article but it is a must read. What is sad however is that our news media while interviewing conservatives that believe in either the Supply Side Economics model or the Austrian Economics model do not refute their provably misinforming crap inasmuch as every major financial catastrophe having been solved […]

Lane Lewis was elected Harris County Democratic Chairman today. Lane gave a very inspiring and spirited speech after he was voted in.Previous chairman Gerry Birnberg became the chair in his precinct. Of course he was still his jolly and commanding self. Seems like all in all we have a strong slate of candidates. I feel […]

I thought long and hard whether to add this to my blog. I err on the side of being aggressive. I hate attacks on what one does in the privacy of their bedroom. That said given the lies and misinformation attempting to bloody otherwise good Democrats including our President, all Democratic activists and operatives must […]

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a very peaceful rally in my town of Kingwood, Texas. We called the rally Occupy Kingwood. The rally was comprised of many organizations in town working for change to re-buttress the middle class. We had a few members of Coffee Party participating as well. We decided […]

That Congress is tied up in knots whenever it must appropriate monies for middle class assistance or middle class centric issues while quickly passing corporate centric bills irrespective of it being paid for is illustrative of the lack of power of the middle class. Case in point is the ruckus currently with regards to extending […]

I just received this in my inbox today. My dear friend Cody Pogue is officially in the the race for State Representative for House District 127. We must get Cody elected to form part of a coalition in our state house to bring back sanity and humanity to our Texas government. Dan Huberty and his […]

This was on ThisWeek with Christiane Amanpour worth watching. It was conservative talking points versus unadulterated facts that left Paul Ryan and George will speechless many times in the debate. I wish the debate was longer because in Barney Frank & Robert Reich we have too Liberals with great intellect that are quick on their […]